BUENOS AIRES ¨C After a relaxing weekend away, Guillermo Ibarrola was walking out of a train station in Argentina¡¯s capital when police arrested him and accused him of a robbery committed hundreds of miles away in a place he had never visited.
¡°It was a nightmare,¡± Ibarrola told local media after the 2019 incident, which rights campaigners say highlights the risks of using facial recognition systems to survey populations.
The system of 300 cameras linked to a national crime database ¡ª dubbed Buenos Aires¡¯ Big Brother ¡ª was suspended two years ago after a court found it may have been used to collect data on journalists, politicians and human rights activists, and ruled it unconstitutional.
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